Notices by Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran :donor: (dave_cochran@infosec.exchange)

Here's what i don't get:

Chat GPT was released for general consumption on 30-NOV-2022, according to wikipedia, and it was FAR AND AWAY the biggest and most socially-impactful such release.

That's like 2.5 years ago if you round up.

How in the FUCK have students already been so infected with its particular brand of brainrot that it's poisoning actual, important software? There's NO way in hell that anyone could have integrated it into a curriculum strongly enough that they could've become fully dependent on it AND graduated en masse yet, right?

It's not just me that takes more than 2.5 years to completely change how they think , right?

@mekkaokereke 1) I would like to point out for the record that I never said so much as a word about gladiator 2 - not just because i suspected that it would suck, but ALSO because i haven't seen it.

2) You gotta watch "Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". It's shockingly good, shlocky fun. Far, far better than you or I would ever have expected it to be.

In fact, here's how sure I am that you will enjoy it (assuming you approach it from the "good shlocky fun" mindset and not the "high cinema" one): I will donate $20 to the charity of your choice if you don't think it earned at least 4 stars.

@briankrebs it's almost like 400 million people are tired of getting fucked over by 10 rich asshats or something

@silverwizard @hypolite Have you played Psychonauts 2?

@hypolite @silverwizard ah, see, i worked retail in that decade so i'm more familiar than i would otherwise have been

@hypolite @silverwizard oh no, i'm an old now

@silverwizard 2009 was a weird time, man

@silverwizard "Mario + Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story"

@stevegis_ssg @mekkaokereke

I understand the word "pie" and I understand the word "leftover" but the phrase "leftover pie" might as well be aramaic for how well i understand it please explain thank you

@mekkaokereke I will be right over to help

@mekkaokereke the problem, to quote (i think?) "bojack horseman", with wearing rose-colored glasses is that all the red flags just look like flags.

@MadSc13ntist @pluralistic

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

@silverwizard you're right and should say so

@nuintari @silverwizard "i'd love to have been able to do this for ya but it looks like i literally cannot, gotta run byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive "Is a user's IP address PII?" I don't think we can answer that with a blanket yes/no the way we used to be able to. Cell phone IP? probably PII. laptop/tablet? mixed odds. desktop? way more likely, but still not a guarantee. non-traditional-computer "device" (fridge, roomba, thermostat, etc)? ....probably not.

@dalias @brewsterkahle @internetarchive PII is by definition and necessity able to be used to identify a single person. If more than one person has access to/uses a laptop/desktop computer, it ceases to be (guaranteeably) PII. Reasonable arguments can be made ("Okay so it was either the six year old or the 30 year old who was looking up [list of bad things here], which do we think is more likely?"), but if it can't immediately identify A person, it's not PII anymore.

#Mazeldon

@whereisthespai assume that no alternate channels exist or, at least, are practical to use

@silverwizard same question, but your company was recently acquired by a larger one, and the email address in question is an "@olddomain.com" one LONG after everyone's been given and told to start using the "@newdomain.com" addresses.

Hypothetical: a user emails the "help, i am experiencing/have just had a cybersecurity incident" email address in order to validate that it's the correct one. As a person on the team that handles those emails, how annoyed are you?